Poe's law? Honestly can't tell. Perhaps lisp programmers like the idea of composition, and decades later we still have no useful method for composing formal gr

Poe's law? Honestly can't tell. Perhaps lisp programmers like the idea of composition, and decades later we still have no useful method for composing formal grammars? When we instead use a uniform tree structure and replace syntax with vocabulary, the problem disappears, and we only need to be concerned with composing the semantics of different "languages". Or maybe they also like being able to quote some tree structure and treat it as code, or quote some code an treat it as data too - without the need for some genius to create an "API" to serialize and deserialize the data, and re-implement the compiler/interpreter. Oh, if you need a feature, you could always ask the developers of your formal syntax to add it to the language, then wait a few years for the next revision to come around.